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LNB news: Over 800 suspects arrested in global encrypted criminal activity operation

09 June 2021
Categories: Legal News , Criminal , Cyber , International justice
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Europol has announced that, in collaboration with the FBI, Dutch National Police, Swedish Police Authority, the US Drug Enforcement Administration, and 16 other countries, ‘one of the largest and most sophisticated’ operations against encrypted criminal activities has been carried out

Lexis®Library update: A device company, ‘ANOM’ was created by the FBI in co-operation with the Australian Federal Police, and serviced over 12,000 encrypted devices to over 300 criminal syndicates in more than 100 countries. Its goal was to target organised crime, drug trafficking and money laundering—intelligence was extracted from 27 million messages between criminal users detailing their criminal activities. The operation, ‘OTF Greenlight/Trojan Shield’ saw over 800 arrests and more than 700 house searches.

Source: 800 CRIMINALS ARRESTED IN BIGGEST EVER LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION AGAINST ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION

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